by lcbaker | Sep 26, 2011 | Pregnancy and Birth
I’ve mentioned before how much I hate being pregnant. No offense to all you earth mamas out there who love it–I can earth mama with the best of you once this baby gets OUT already–but I really do hate pregnancy. Pretty much the only redeeming factor...
by lcbaker | Sep 22, 2011 | Green Living
Last night I wrote an email to one of my favorite blogs, and she featured it in her post this morning. Read it at Free-Range Kids. And while I was thinking about being free-range and green and natural and getting outdoors, I decided that my daughter and I just had to...
by lcbaker | Sep 20, 2011 | Healthy Food
For some reason, anytime I hear anything with “organic” in the name, I associate it with food. Unless it’s a baby carrier or a cloth diaper, I tend to assume that organic means something edible. (And even if it’s not supposed to be edible,...
by lcbaker | Sep 19, 2011 | Elimination Communication
One of the biggest misconceptions about elimination communication–one I hear all the time–is the idea that the point of it is potty training. Which is perfectly understandable: it does involve helping a baby use the potty, so it can look a lot like potty...
by lcbaker | Sep 16, 2011 | Green Living
It’s funny. Before I was a parent, I thought of myself as an environmentalist. But even though I did some volunteer activist work and wrote a lot about the environment, I never managed to shift my lifestyle that much. I tried to bike and walk instead of driving....